What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The contested election of 2000 and the extraordinary legal and PR battle that ensued.

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0:00.0	Rowdy protests, angry Republicans, a contested election. On this week's on the
0:07.1	media we revisit another make or break moment in American democracy 24 years ago.
0:14.0	Everybody is starting to lose patience with this election.
0:16.6	The process seems doomed to work its slow and painful way
0:20.8	through a series of courtrooms no matter what happens.
0:23.3	The punch hole is called a Chad.
0:25.6	It is attached to the ballot by four threads.
0:28.4	Two corners of a Chad had to be pushed for a vote to be considered.
0:31.9	Now, the standards been relaxed to just one or even just a dimple.
0:37.0	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Republican demonstrators stormed the hallways
0:42.6	and demanded access to the recount room.
0:45.0	It certainly leaves Florida in a sort of legal state of limbo.
0:48.8	What can the Gore v Bush fiasco teach us about partisan politics today?
0:53.6	That's coming up after this. Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.
1:07.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
1:15.7	I'm Michael Loeinger.
1:17.5	It's mid-May.
1:19.0	And as we head towards November, with the knowledge that at least one of the candidates is a sore loser,
1:24.0	the fear of more post-election chaos looms large.
1:28.0	To distract ourselves from all that, let's go back in time to another make or break moment for democracy.
1:35.8	It started on the night of the presidential election, November 7, 2000, when the national television networks called Florida for Vice President Al Gore
1:46.0	An important win for Vice President Al Gore, NBC News projects that he wins the 25
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